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| Welcome to the Destiny Quest Projects Website. The “Projects” are a collection of activities maintained by Andrew & Beckie McNiece. The McNieces have been married for over 30 years and for 15 years ran the Christian Community Living Center in Lynnwood. The CCLC was a community home opened to those in need of emergency housing. People stayed for anywhere from weeks to years. Over time the “house specialty” became single mom’s and woman in stressed marriages, though there were single dad’s and whole families who joined the CCLC Family over the years. As time went by it became evident that some level of counseling training would be beneficial to help meet the needs of the residents. In the late 1990’s, Andrew & Beckie attended the Basic Prayer Counseling Training course offered by Elijah House. Afterward they had an opportunity to teacher assist in a second basic school, and after that concluded they maintained a full counseling schedule for the next year. Since then they have provided lay-counseling services on an as needed basis for those referred by word of mouth.
Other involvement’s include Andrew and Beck’s joint development of curriculum and leading the Sunday morning Junior High School program at Lynnwood Neighborhood Church for 10 years; Beck’s involvement in Children’s Ministry, Administrative and Office Support, Intercessory Prayer and the development of “E-Pray” email prayer chain ministries at Family Life Center and Living Hope over 15 and 6 years respectively and Andrew’s participation in two Worship Teams (Family Life Center for 10 years & Living Hope for 6 years) playing drums and percussion’s, and most recently in leading worship at Living Hope. Beck is currently a home healthcare provider for Companion Care. Andrew has a background in Law Enforcement and is currently the Security Supervisor at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue. Andrew is also a Ham Radio Operator at Technician’s level with the call sign KE7IAE. Andrew & Beck attend Living Water Fellowship. |
| CONTACT INFORMATION: We currently live at Lake Pleasant RV Park located at: 24025 Bothell-Everett Hwy #117 Bothell, WA 98021 andrewbeck@destinyquest.net You can contact us at: |
| Reba McNiece-Casey Takes Flight In a lifetime first event, Reba McNiece-Casey boarded a plane on Febuary 12th and made the first flight of her life to Seattle, making her first visit ever to Washington State! During that time she stayed with Andrew & Beckie and was toured to various key attractions including the Space Needle and the Pike Place Market. She also got to meet many "chosen family" members and learn more about her own family as well. She left with a few family keepsakes as well, making this a most meaningful "first". Next time though, we will target a time closer to the summer so we can actually work in that "top down" drive we talked about but found it too cold and rainy to actually do!! New Tricks! You know the saying… you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Of course, we all know that’s not true and Andrew’s newly acquired skill proves it! For all of you safe owners out there, you may realize changing your safe combination is sometimes the wise and necessary thing to do but with the cost of call out fees and labor, changing the combo on one safe could easily deprive you of $70-$100 bucks or more! That sometimes means safes that should have been re-combinated long ago never get changed and valuable or sensitive property is placed at risk. Now safe owners have an affordable option. Andrew has recently learned how to recombinate most modern safes and is especially experienced with AMSEC and S&G dial sets. If your safe is located within 25 miles, there is no callout fee and recombinating fees are only $50 for the first safe and $40 for any additional safes should you have more than one that needs to be done at the same time. Andrew dabbled in locksmithing sometime back but has been out of the “trade” for sometime but with his current employment it has become necessary for him to not only get back into the trade, but also get professional training as well. That training is ongoing and as new services become available, you will all be informed. Locksmiths can be expensive. Don’t pay extra for selected services you can get discounts on! Business Practices It occurred to me that we all have experiences with various businesses out there wanting to get new customers. Since word of mouth and the recommendations of someone you trust can go a long way toward steering you toward good businesses and away from crummy ones, I decided to start sharing my experiences with various companies I’ve had the pleasure or perhaps, displeasure, of dealing with. In this new section called “Business Practices” (scroll up and click on the Business Practices button at the upper left couner right under Homemade Music), you will be able to see what kind of real life experiences we’ve had with companies interested in having YOU as a customer. “Business Practices” is divided into two sections, “Good Business Practices” and “Poor Business Practices”. In those sections we will tell it like it is and name names, whether it be a good experience or a bad one, all in the hope that good businesses will be rewarded with your support and bad ones will enjoy the consequence of a dwindling customer base for their bad behavior. I’ll be adding to the “Business Practices” section regularly so be sure to check it out from time to time. No longer with I Know CPR Due to changes in the business structure, Andrew is no longer an Instructor’s Assistant with I Know CPR. Over the last few years he hasn’t been able to take classes but the experience was none the less very valuable and we continue to recommend Randy and the crew at I Know CPR to meet your CPR and First Aid accreditation and training requirements. They are “top shelf” in every way! Six Weeks Of Worship With Deborah on sabbatical, Andrew is filling in as worship leader. This is proving to be both an opportunity and a stretch. While Andrew has led worship in the past, it was with the support of a full worship team and he lead with vocals only. In this new environment he is learning how to play the guitar at a higher level and lead with only one other vocalist. It’s a whole new worship leading experience. The process started with some pretty stressful practice sessions but starting this week the stress is almost gone and it’s becoming as fun as it’s suppose to be! Travel Docket Over January 8th and 9th, Beck and Andrew had a Planning Retreat where they plotted out their travel plans for 2010. The outcome of those plans are the following travel projects: Q0110, March 26th-March 31. This will be the first quarterly trip to see Andrew’s mom and he’s planning on incorporating his sister Reba in that visit. Q0210/Elkhart 2010. This trip will combine Andrew’s second quarterly trip to California with their first expedition to Elkhart in several years. This trip will start w2ith Beck’s flight to Fresno on May 8th. Andrew will start his drive southward on the 13th. On May 21st they will begin a cross country drive to Cape Girardeau Missouri. They plan to arrive in Cape on the 24th and visit friends in southern Indiana on the 25th. They are scheduled to arrive in Elkhart May 26th where they will stay until May 31st. On May 31st they stop to visit friends is Kansas City Missouri. They will leave Kansas City and be home by Friday, June 4th. Q0310, September 24th – September 29th. This will be the third quarterly trip to see Andrew’s mom and he’s planning on incorporating his sister Reba in that visit. Q0410, December 22 – January 2, 2011. This will be the fourth quarterly trip to see Andrew’s mom and he’s planning on incorporating his sister Reba in that visit. Beck and Andrew also plan on spending Christmas with family for the first time in several years. Guidance Ministries Update Hello everyone, I have not put out an email in quite some time and I know I need to be more consistant. So much has happened. God has been so good to us. My greatest joy is seeing the people we have led to Christ growing in Him. The word tells us to "go and make disciples". It does not say make converts. Obviously we have to lead them to Jesus before the disciplemaking process begins. Recently I have begun a mentorship program for several women we have led to the Lord or been influencial in their decision to rededicate their lives to Christ. Let me tell you about one of the ladies-actually let me tell ya about the whole family. Why? Both the husband and wife were backslidden christians who no longer attended church and in fact had gotten a divorce. Through facebook Pastor Frank began to minister to and exhort the lady to reevaluate her life in Christ and the influence on her family. After several months to make a long story short the woman came to a church service with her children, then brought her ex-husband. They both rededicated their lives to Christ about a month later, remarried and are involved in the church as well as their children are deeply involved in youth group. As an added awesome bonus, the wife's sister who is a teenager is now also coming and involved in the youth group. This young lady had drifted from the Lord and had gotten in trouble with drugs. The whole family is also active helping at Guidance Ministries during the week whenever they can. Hey, we've got stuff coming up you should know about. This weekend on Saturday from 6 am to 3pm Southwind Flooring in Shipsee is holding another blow out sale for God's Kitchen. Last year they raised over $5,000! Flooring has been donated from distributors and contractors and they are selling it and giving all of the proceeds to us. Frank and I bought a case of Italian tile that retails for $70 a box for $10! The prices can't be beat. They are priced to sell for us. Please go out and check out what they have. Last year the were 2 rooms full of all kinds of flooring. They also have a huge sale going on with their other flooring that is not part of the distributors and contractors donations. One of our board members has purchased all of her flooring needs their because of the prices and customer service. These are a wonderful Christian family that owns and operates Southwind Flooring. Please come out and support them and us. Also, Elder Bearman has a $5 coupon book we are using as a fundraiser. Every dime from the $5 coupon book stays with Guidance Ministries and you get a booklet full of great coupon discounts. The sale day to use your coupons is Saturday, february 27th! Come on now how many of you have sponsored someone for a walk a thon for $5? You get nothing out of it personally but the good feeling that you helped an organization out via a walk a thon. Well, here ya can actually save yourself some bucks and help a non-profit out at the same time. Email me, facebook me, call me, or just come on in and pick up your $5 coupon book. And, finally, it is Guidance Ministries 10th year anniversary and we are having a celebration dinner at the Matterhorn Restaurant on Cassopolis St. here in Elkhart on Friday evening February 26th at 6:30 pm. This is not a fundraiser. Matterhorn is charging us $16 a ticket so therefore we are asking you to purchase tickets for $16 if you would like to come. We would love for you to come and celebrate with us. well have a great time together of recaping the past 10 years. Blessings to ya all! Pastor Lori |
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